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The Rentenmark ( German: [ˈʁɛntn̩maʁk] ⓘ; RM) was a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany, after the previously used "paper" Mark had become almost worthless. [1] It was subdivided into 100 Rentenpfennig and was replaced in 1924 by the Reichsmark .
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Apr 11, 2014 · By the time the Battle of Stalingrad had ended in 1943, the eventual outcome of the war was no longer in doubt: Germany was finished. Stalin’s Red Army persistently pushed the Wehrmacht back towards Germany, gobbling up territories that would later form the Iron Curtain.
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Feb 24, 2012 · Posted February 24, 2012. Morning all, a Luger I got a while back has some paperwork that just resurfaced. I wanted to share it with you all, hoping to get a little background on the unit the 'captor' was with, anything at all. The 1st Lt. didn't have the neatest handwriting but at least the unit is readable.
- Hello JD, I love those capture papers, of all sorts ! And am I understanding it correctly that this is for the pistol you have ? - I don't have a u...
- JD, You have the Luger as well.....mat we see it as well?
- Paste this into Google and you'll find plenty of reference: "599th" "Anti-Aircraft Artillery"
- I just ran accross your certificate for the Luger capture paperwork. I have one as well. This is from a relative that was in the 101st AB 377th PFA...
- Wow, that's great that you have a pic of it as well as the actual gun. Very cool. I recently picked up a lot of letters and papers tied to a WWII M...
- They even had Customs Declarations for these captured Lugers...
- Hello Guy's, I guess I'm a bit late with my reply here, but you know what "they" say, Better Late Than Never ! NOTHING get's me more excited than a...
- That's pretty cool. I haven't seen a PTO certificate. Very nice item! I haven't see a Customs Declaration either. These Customs Declaration must ha...
- Great information Dom. I actually have the duplicate of the same certificate as well. I think they were both hand written...I will have to check. M...
- No, the Customs forms didn't always indicate an item was being mailed home. Sometimes the Customs Declaration form were present with items hand car...
Five years after the war ended in December of 1923, the German bank had issued nearly 500 quintillion marks, making the German market equal to 1 trillion of its value in 1914. Probably one of the greatest cases of hyperinflation in all of history, in November of 19 2342 billion marks were worth one American set.
Apr 30, 2014 · Hitler’s Holdouts – Meet the Last German Troops to Surrender in WW2. 30 April, 2014. Wehrmacht troops give themselves up to the Canadian army, August, 1944. Although, the German armed forces officially surrendered en masse in May of 1945. Not all soldiers and sailors got the message.
The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel on 8 May 1945 ( VE Day) in Karlshorst, Berlin. After German leader Adolf Hitler 's suicide and handing over of power to grand admiral Karl Dönitz on the last day of April 1945 ...
In 1951 people could still only buy 2/- worth of meat each week. Bread was rationed from 1946 to 1948 and potatoes for a year from 1947. (Rationing ended 8 years before I was born, but my parents remember rationing and both said this sounds about right from their memories of rationing.
